The X-Files

The X-Files Cold Cases #9: 'The Dismemberance of Things Past'
The X-Files Cold Cases #9: 'The Dismemberance of Things Past'
The X-Files Cold Cases #9: 'The Dismemberance of Things Past'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard‘s earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully about to return to television, we at ComicsAlliance are revisiting this classic series, and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. For this final post in this series, I'm looking back at my favorite X-Files comic from the entire run --- for how well it's written and drawn, and for how deep and primal a fear it touches within me.
The X-Files Cold Cases #8: 'Feelings of Unreality'
The X-Files Cold Cases #8: 'Feelings of Unreality'
The X-Files Cold Cases #8: 'Feelings of Unreality'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard‘s earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully about to return to television, we at ComicsAlliance are revisiting this classic series, and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. This week, the first year of the X-Files comic closes out on a high note, as the comic exceeds the TV series and delivers on a “season finale” that attempts to tie together all that came before it, and actually succeeds.
The X-Files Cold Cases #7: 'Trepanning Opera'
The X-Files Cold Cases #7: 'Trepanning Opera'
The X-Files Cold Cases #7: 'Trepanning Opera'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard‘s earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully about to return to television, we at ComicsAlliance are revisiting this classic series, and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. This week, it's Mulder and Scully versus a serial killer so detached and unreal, only the style of a comic book could bring him to life - or whatever dreamlike state passes for it - and we get hints of a larger metaplot that ties together the entire first year of the X-Files comic.
The X-Files Cold Cases #6: 'Donor'
The X-Files Cold Cases #6: 'Donor'
The X-Files Cold Cases #6: 'Donor'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard's earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully about to return to television, we at ComicsAlliance are revisiting this classic series, and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. This week, Mulder and Scully (and we, the reader) confront disquieting existential questions about what happens after we die — not just what happens to our souls, but to the bodies we leave behind — in the form of a grisly serial murderer taking back the donated organs of a dead man.
The X-Files Cold Cases, #5: 'Thin Air'
The X-Files Cold Cases, #5: 'Thin Air'
The X-Files Cold Cases, #5: 'Thin Air'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard's earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully about to return to television, we at ComicsAlliance are revisiting this classic series, and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. This week, Mulder and Scully's investigation into a classic Bermuda Triangle mystery provides an opportunity for a discourse on the virtues of skepticism, in a story that has only grown in relevance over the past twenty years.
The X-Files Cold Cases #4: 'Firebird'
The X-Files Cold Cases #4: 'Firebird'
The X-Files Cold Cases #4: 'Firebird'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard‘s earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully returning to television in January, we’re revisiting this classic series and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. This week, an epic three-part story with enough scale that it could have been a movie, tying in to one of the most popular unexplained events of the 20th century. But does this story break the X-Files' rules?
The X-Files Cold Cases #3: 'Home of the Brave'
The X-Files Cold Cases #3: 'Home of the Brave'
The X-Files Cold Cases #3: 'Home of the Brave'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard‘s earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully returning to television in January, we’re revisiting this classic series and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. This week, we review a two-part story of belonging and escape, which begs the sort of profound questions about our relationships to our governments that lie at the very heart of The X-Files.
The X-Files Cold Cases #2: 'Falling'
The X-Files Cold Cases #2: 'Falling'
The X-Files Cold Cases #2: 'Falling'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard's earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully returning to television in January, we're revisiting this classic series and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell. This week, we revisit a story that mostly steers clear of the paranormal, but still finds interesting ways to explore paranoia, bureaucracy, and the nature of evil.
The X-Files Cold Cases, #1: 'One Player Only'
The X-Files Cold Cases, #1: 'One Player Only'
The X-Files Cold Cases, #1: 'One Player Only'
From 1995 to 1998, Topps Comics published a comics tie-in to The X-Files that featured original stories and, among other artists, some of Charlie Adlard's earliest US art. With Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully returning to television in January, we're revisiting this classic series and highlighting some of the best stories it had to tell, starting with The X-Files #13: 'One Player Only'.
The Bargain Is Out There In Humble Bundle's 'X-Files' Sale
The Bargain Is Out There In Humble Bundle's 'X-Files' Sale
The Bargain Is Out There In Humble Bundle's 'X-Files' Sale
If you like stories of paranoid mysteries and giving money to charity, good news: apparently someone in a position of power read your mind. Not literally. We were joking. Please take the tinfoil off your head. Humble Bundle has teamed up with IDW Publishing for their latest charity bundle featuring various X-Files comics, in advance of the hotly anticipated revival of the classic television series about a familiar pair of FBI agents investigating cases they’re not really supposed to solve, about things that shouldn’t exist.

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